Question

A cube is cut into 8 smaller cubes of the same size. What is the ratio of the smaller cube's surface area to the original cube's surface area?

Answer 1

The surface area will be 1/8.

Answer 2

the smaller cubes surface area is 1/8 the surface area of the original cube

Explanation:

one cube = 1

one cube cut (divided) into 8 pieces= 1 divided by 8

1 divided by 8 can also be written as a fraction as 1/8